No, the human-robot singularity does not exist. But we need to take action to control AI | Samuel Woolley

OOn a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was shocked by the billboards lining the highway in front of the airport. “The uniqueness is there,” declared one. “Humanity has had a good run,” said another. It seemed like every other sign along the road was littered with claims from tech companies making outrageous claims about artificial intelligence. The ads were, of course, full of hype and ragebait. But the claims it contains do not arise in a vacuum. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said, “We basically created AGI, or are very close to it,” before confusingly describing his statement as “spiritual.” Elon Musk goes even further and claims: “We have entered the singularity.”

Enter Moltbook, the social media site for AI agents. In other words: a place where bots can communicate with other bots. A flood of ominous news articles and editorials followed its publication. The authors were disturbed by the fact that the bots were talking about religion, claiming…